PANEL 30: TERRITORIES, COMMUNITIES, AND EXCHANGES IN KHAM
THURSDAY 25 JULY
Convenor: Stéphane Gros
| (I) Trade, commerce, and exchange processes | |
| 9:15-9:30 | Introduction
Stéphane Gros |
| 9:30-10:00 | Easternmost Tibet: Trade nexus of cooperation and conflict
Patrick Booz |
| 10:00-10:30 | The courier station network in Kham during the Qing period and change in its function
Lu Mei |
| 10:30 – 11.00 |
Tea and Coffee |
| 11.00-11:30 | A cross-area approach to routes of communication
Chen Bo |
| 11:30-12:00 | Kham Tibetam Muslims: Shaping and shifting of indigenous conceptualizations of authority, trade and culture along the Sino-Tibetan ethnic corridor
David Atwill |
| 12:00-12:30 | Discussants:Elliot Sperling and Peter Schwieger
Discussion |
| 12:30–2:00 |
Lunch |
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(II) BOUNDARIES OF AUTHORITY |
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| 2:00-2:30 | From trade to political legitimacy in Southernmost Kham (19th-20th centuries)
Stéphane Gros |
| 2:30-3:00 | The Ngor pa Abbots at the Court of Derge (sDe dge) during the 18th Century: Preserving the order’s influence and authority in a competitive environment
Rémi Chaix |
| 3:00-3:30 | The decline of the Derge (sDe dge) kingdom and the emergence of a strongman in late 19th and early 20th century Kham
Yudru Tsomu |
| 3:30 – 4:00 |
Tea and Coffee |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | The Nation-state building in the late Qing dynasty and Zhao Erfeng’s legal reforms in Kham
Zha Luo |
| 4:30 – 5:00 | The first non-monastic school in Muli (1946-48): An epitomization of the political forces and cultural influences at work in the region during the 1940s
Lara Maconi |
| 5:00-6:00 | Discussants: Elliot Sperling and Peter Schwieger
Discussion |